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10 Most CONTROVERSIAL Met Gala Moments
Sure, the Met Gala is astir fashion.
But it's besides astir the intangibles: The anticipation that builds arsenic you're waiting to spot what Rihanna's going to wear. The exes who walked the red carpet together erstwhile upon a clip but person since recovered caller plus-ones. The hugs, the snubs, the side-eye.
And past determination are the years wherever each anyone remembers is the after-party. Or the impromptu dance-off, the illicit radical selfie, oregon the dress that lights the mode for all. And wait, is that a member of the royal family?!
Regardless, immoderate your fancy, the Met Gala provides. The 2023 taxable is "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty," successful grant of the inimitable precocious decorator who headed the houses of Chanel and Fendi successful summation to his ain eponymous line, truthful we're expecting the parade of looks to include haute couture galore—and hats disconnected to immoderate celeb paying tribute to his beloved feline companion Choupette.
'Twould beryllium the purrrfect touch.
So, with the archetypal Monday successful May being close now, jog your passionateness for manner up of tonight's main lawsuit by scrolling done these unforgettable Met Gala moments from years past:
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Kim Kardashian Arriving (Literally) Unrecognizable
For her red-carpet entranceway astatine the 2021 Met Gala, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star had the satellite buzzing with her shocking faceless all-black look: a customized ensemble designed by Demna Gvasalia, creative manager of Balenciaga. And if you're wondering however Kim was capable to spot done the worldly of her outfit, turns out, she couldn't!
"The full evening of the Met Ball, Kim couldn't see, and she couldn't breathe," ma Kris Jenner revealed during a November 2021 interview. "So, my fellow Corey [Gamble] was walking around—we were each unneurotic and helium was starring her to wherever we were expected to spell and helping with her ponytail. It was suddenly—he was idiosyncratic pulling her around, and a hairstylist each astatine the aforesaid time."
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Three Times the Looks
Lil Nas X gives america what's helium got until helium can't anymore. The vocalist changed doubly during his entranceway for the 2021 Met Gala. One of his looks, which included a Versace suit made of golden armor, has inactive near stars successful our eyes.
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The Couple That Slay Together...
RiRi makes the database clip and clip again for her groundbreaking fashions, but Rihanna Navy went into a frenzy erstwhile the prima walked the reddish carpet of the 2021 Met Gala with fellow A$AP Rocky. It was destiny for the 2 to get arsenic 1 of the past couples of the evening, since they practically unopen down the carpet with their adorable entrance.
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London Calling
Princess Diana attended her archetypal and lone Met Gala successful 1996, a twelvemonth earlier her shocking death. Her lingerie-inspired gown was controversial among those who felt she should person worn thing much blimpish (which she astir did, acrophobic she mightiness embarrass her teenage son, Prince William), but the navy satin gaffe dress—designed by John Galliano for Dior— was an instantly iconic look.
Through 2019, the Princess of Wales and Princess Beatrice are the lone members of Britain's royal household who have attended the Met Gala, though it's hard to ideate Prince Harry and Meghan Markle not making their ain expansive entranceway 1 of these days.
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Rih-Diculous
We'll keep this abbreviated and sweet: Each and each clip Rihanna ascends the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a infinitesimal successful Met Gala past is made. We bow down implicit and implicit again.
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Elevator Showdown
The 2014 Met Gala went down successful infamy acknowledgment to a certain elevator ride starring Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Solange Knowles. Leaked surveillance footage showed the rapper being physically accosted by Bey's small sister successful the assistance astatine NYC's Standard Hotel portion his woman made nary determination to intervene, prompting the notoriously backstage trio to merchandise a uncommon nationalist connection reassuring anyone who was funny (aka, everybody) that they remained a "united family."
Though we'll astir apt never know precisely what caused the altercation, Beyoncé's remix of "Flawless" alluded to it erstwhile she rapped, "Of people sometimes s--t goes down erstwhile there's a cardinal dollars connected an elevator."
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Hiddleswift Busts a Move
Swifties tin hint Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston's romance backmost to the 2016 Met Gala, wherever they had a full-on creation party. Less than a period later, the singer and Calvin Harris would spell their abstracted ways and she'd bask a whirlwind summertime romance with the British actor.
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Queen of His Heart
George Clooney and Amal Clooney made their Met Gala debut as hubby and woman successful 2015, and Amal would instrumentality arsenic a co-chair of the lawsuit successful 2018.
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When Life Gives You Lemons
Just 1 week aft Beyoncé dropped Lemonade, which shed caller airy connected her and Jay-Z's marital turmoil, the performer showed up to the 2016 soiree without her accustomed plus-one. (Cue wide hysteria from the Beyhive.) She did person the enactment of Solange that evening, who coincidentally was dressed successful citrus yellow.
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Kim's North Star
Kim Kardashian won't soon hide her precise archetypal Met Gala successful 2013, wherever the expectant reality-TV superstar arrived alongside Kanye West in an eye-popping floral print by Givenchy. Daughter North West was calved a period later—and 2 years later, Kim poked amusive astatine herself by wearing the aforesaid floral design for Halloween. "Still fits...," she captioned the infinitesimal connected societal media.
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Mad for Plaid
Sarah Jessica Parker and the late Alexander McQueen punked retired in matching tartan astatine the Met Gala successful 2006 to celebrate "AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression successful British Fashion."
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Three's a Crowd
They accidental a representation is worthy a 1000 words, but this 1 of Jeremy Scott sandwiched betwixt his 2016 Met Gala dates Nicki Minaj and Demi Lovato is alternatively priceless. After the erstwhile Disney prima accused the rapper of throwing "shade" connected Instagram, she further alluded to the awkward lawsuit (without naming names) successful an interrogation with Billboard in which she opened up astir her less-than-dreamy nighttime 2 years prior.
"I had a unspeakable experience," she recalled successful 2018. "This 1 personage was a implicit bitch and was miserable to beryllium around. It was precise cliquey."
Rule Breakers
What happens wrong the Met Gala stays successful the Met Gala, oregon astatine slightest that was Anna Wintour's extremity erstwhile she banned selfies successful 2015. What is this, the Oscars?!
But 2 years later, Kylie Jenner's crew gathered successful the bath to instrumentality this sneaky snapshot. The result? A Kodak infinitesimal that volition basal the trial of clip (and astir apt didn't impact Kodak).
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A Heavenly Surprise
In 2018, Madonna appeared atop the stairs of the Great Hall with an unforgettable accumulation of "Like a Prayer." The performance, which besides featured the popular icon's rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," acceptable close successful with the event's taxable that year, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination." Stairway to heaven, indeed.
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Thank You, Next
Dressed successful the revenge catsuit to extremity each revenge catsuits, Bella Hadid expertly navigated what could person been rather the awkward enactment with ex-boyfriend The Weeknd and his day for the 2017 Met Gala, Selena Gomez. An insider told E! News that the supermodel kept her region from the mates passim the evening, but Bella and the "Blinding Lights" vocalist ended up reconciling a twelvemonth later. Then broke up again.
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Feeling of Dread
Jaden Smith redefined fearless manner erstwhile helium brought his freshly chopped dreadlocks with him to the Met Gala successful 2017. The improbable accessory not lone raised eyebrows, but also started somewhat of a contented for the envelope-pushing artit. In 2018, the golden certification plaque for his opus "Icon" was his Met Gala date.
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Belle of the Ball
Claire Danes arrived astatine the 2016 Met Gala successful a airy bluish shot gown acceptable for a tech-savvy Disney princess. It turned retired that the Homeland star's Zac Posen confection featured thousands of hand-sewn L.E.D. lights that illuminated the creation floor.
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The Real Transformer
Lady Gaga schooled each comers successful the creation of "Camp: Notes connected Fashion," the taxable of 2019's Met Gala, erstwhile she arrived successful a voluminous pinkish Brandon Maxwell ballgown that was lone the beginning. Several nesting-doll looks later, she was down to her luxe skivvies and the assemblage was connected its knees.
Watch Live From E!: Met Gala 2023 connected Monday, May 1, starting astatine 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT.
